2020 Texas Rangers hitters xwOBA update

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesWe are 39 games into the 2020 MLB season — a season that has gone extremely poorly for the Texas Rangers — and while 39 games isn’t a huge sample size, we can still take a look at what guys have done thusfar statistically.

Let’s take a look at how the Ranger hitters are faring in xwOBA this year. xwOBA, as we have discussed, is the level of production a player would be expected to have given his quality of contact (based on exit velocity and launch angle) combined with his walks and strikeouts.

A wOBA of .330 is generally average, though this year, across the league, the average wOBA is lower — .317. And wOBA isn’t park-adjusted, so these do not reflect the…